Bag-frame.



0. HIE'RIQNG & A. FULLER. BAG FRAME.

' APPLICATION FILED Q0126, 1910. 1,027,387.'

Patented May 21,1912.

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CHRISTIAN I-IIERING AND ALBERT FULLER, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNORSTO J. E. MERGOTT COMPANY, OF NEWARK, NEW ERSEY, A CORPORATION OF NEWJERSEY.

f BAG-FRAME.

Specification of Letters Patent.-

PatentedMay 21, 1912.

Original application filed April 22, 1909, Serial No. 491,565. Dividedand this application filed October 26, 1910. Serial No. 589,125.

5 county of Essex, and State of New Jersey,

have invented certain new and useful'Improvements in Bag-Frames, beingpart of the original application filed April 22, 1909,

Serial No; 491,565, for improvements in bagframes; and we do herebydeclare the fol lowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which itpertains to make and use the same.

The primary object of this invention is the production of angular bagframes for bags and purses, and especially'for traveling, chatelaines,and similar bags, which consists in first cutting a blank of therequisite form from sheet metal as illustrated in Figure 1, said blankcomprising a main body member and angular pivot members, then by meansof suitable punches and dies, angling the main body member and hingemembers to form the completed member with sharp corners, having the mainbody member angled to a greater depth than the hinge members.

Hitherto, in the construction of bag frames of the type to which ourinvention relates, it has been customary'to form at first, a solid blankas illustrated in full lines in Fig. 10, and thereafter by. suitabledrawing dies, simultaneously draw up the metal "after cutting out theblank on the dotted lines indicated in said figure. This form of blankis objectionable for the reason that while it lends itself admirably tosoft metal, it is not at all adapted when it is desired to use what isknown in the trade, as'quarter, half or hard metal, and'for the furtherreason that the metal indicated by the dotted lines is wastematerial;

By cutting a blank such as illustrated in Fig. 1, we can dispensewiththe blank illustrated in Fig. 10, and which comprises a main bodyportion and the two hinge members. Furthermore, distinct and importantadvantages are gained with this form of blank and the steps necessary toform it with around three edges of the blank and thereangular corners.We are enabled to discard the heretofore undesirable soft material, and

substitute hard material, thereby producing V a frame member possessingmore rigidity and simultaneously reducing the amount of waste metal inthe manufacture of bag frames of this type, to a minimum. 4

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, Fig.1 represents a sheet metal blank which subsequently forms the angled bagframe/member with sharp corners. Fig. 2 represents the major portion ofthe main body member of said blank angled. Fig. 3 represents the resultof the next operation of angling one corner of said blank. Fig. 4represents a part of the main body member of said blank angled. Fig. 5represents the result of the next operation of angling onecorner and thehinge member of said blank. Fig. 6 represents the result of thesubsequent operation of angling the other corner and hinge member. Fig.7

represents a sectional View taken on line m-m of Fig. 6. Fig. 8represents a sectional view of another form of three bag frame memberssecured together. Fig. 9 represents an end view of the same; and Fig. 10represents a plan view of a reduced blank hitherto used, indicating indotted lines, the waste of said blank.

Similar letters of reference refer to like parts throughout thespecification and drawings.

In the description of the product of our invention, we willsimultaneously describe the process of making the same, so that thoseskilled in the art to which it pertains, may gain a full knowledge ofthe process as well as the product.

In Fig. 1, we have shown the sheet metal To complete the 55 stabilitythan those heretofore made, and. a

that a cross-section is, as shown in Fig. 8, where A represents anangled frame, made from the blank a.

As shown, the sheet metal blank (4 is blanked out in such a way as tonearly resemble the finished frame member, which as previously stated,comprises the main body member 6 and the two angular hinge members 0 asdistinguished from the blank illustrated in full lines in Fig. 10, inwhich it was necessary to cut out a blank as shown, and then by means ofa simple drawing die, angle or draw up at one operation, the main bodymember and the rectangular hinge members, and thereafter cutting out theblank on the dotted lines indicated in said figure, said portionindicated by the dotted lines representing the waste material.

The process just described in connection with the blank illustrated inFig. 10 of the drawings, did lend itself admirably to the heretoforesoft material used, but is absolutely impractical when applied to whatis known in the trade as hard material, for the reason that in thesubsequent operation of drawing up or angling the sides of said blank,the metal at the angled portion of the blank would break, owing to thehardness of the same. We have also found it to be impractical to takeblank as illustrated in Fig. 10 of the drawings, of either soft or hardmaterial, and subject it to the operation of simultaneously angling ordrawing up by means of a drawing die, the main body member and hingemember of said blank, for the reason that the metal of the main bodymember and the hinge members constituting the inner edge of the blank,would be drawn out of shape, thereby producing a very much distortedframe member having a shape similar to the one indicated in dotted linesin Fig. 6. In order to overcome the aforesaid difiiculties, we havefound it advantageous to construct a blank as indicated in Fig. 1, andthen by means of suitable and simple punches and dies, angling the majorportion or the entirety of the main body member, as indicated in Fig. 2,and finally angling the hinge members and corners of said blank to formthe completed member with sharp corners as illustrated in Figs. 3, 5 and6.

Sometimes, we find it convenient to first angle the major portion of themain body member, thereafter angling the corner of a blank and finallyangling the hinge members to form a completed member with sharp corners.

By the process described, we are enabled to produce a bag frame member,the main body portion 6 of which has formed thereon an angular flange ofgreater depth than those of the hinge members 0 as illustrated in Figs.7, 8 and .9, in which the angle portion extends over and overlaps theangled portion of the other frame member, (see F 7), thereby producingwhen assembled, a bag frame of extremely neat appearance and novelconstruction. The novel product is further illustrated in Figs. 8 and 9,in which three members constitute the com pleted bag frame, two ofwhich, namely, the outer ones A A are provided at the main body portionwith an angle or flange of greater depth than those of the hingemembers, the space between the hinge members permitting theinterposition of an auxiliary member A The wider angled portions of theframe members A cover the top of the auxiliary frame and the hingemembers of said auxiliary frame filling in the space between the twoouter frame members, which when so assembled, produce an even surfaceextending nearly around the frame sections.

By the operations described, and the use of the very simple punches anddies employed, we are enabled without inconvenience to use metal, thestandard gage of which sometimes materially varies without affecting thetools and the product, inasmuch as this process of independently anglingthe sides of the blank as distinguished from angling or drawing up theside of the blank simultaneously as heretofore done, enables us todispense with an accurately fitting punch and die, the dimensions ofwhich have to be kept up to a size to accommodate material of a giventhickness and substitute therefor a punch and die of very simpleconstruction, which can be set up with relation to each other toaccommodate the material of varying thicknesses.

We claim:

In a device of the character described, two outside U-shaped bag framemembers, an intermediate U-shaped bag frame member, and means forpivotally connecting the lower ends of the arms of said bag framemembers, the outside bag frame members each comprising a main bodyportion and hinge members extending therefrom formed from an unbrokenflat piece of sheet metal, and a continuous flange extending around theouter edge of said body portion and the hinge members, the flangesextending along the edges of the body portions of said outside framemembers being of greater width than the flanges extending along thehinge members thereof, and adapted to abut when said outside framemembers are in closed position, the intermediate frame member comprisingan unbroken flat body portion having hinge members extending therefromand provided with a continuous flange extending around the outer edge ofsaid body portion and the hinge members, the flange extending along thebody portion of said intermediate frame member being adapted to underliethe abutting flanges extending along the edges of the body portions ofthe outside frame members, and the This specification signed andwitnessed flange extending along the edges of the this 20th day ofOctober, 1910.

hinge members of said intermediate frame CHRISTIAN HIERING. member beingadapted to lie Within the ALBERT FULLER.

5 space between the flanges extending from \Vitnesses:

the hinge members of said outside frame A W. H. CONKLIN,

members. I J. A. RAUsEHOUSEN.

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